The problem is many of your favorite *safe* websites use advertising networks. Some of the networks have virus infected ads without Google or the site owner knowing before it is too late. It has been on slashdot a year or two ago.
More than likely this is when you would haveNoScript off because you trust the site. The malware writers know this and are taking advantage of this too. Even that is not 100% secure.
I like AVG due to its link security. It also has excellent Firefox integration and prevented some nasty javascripts from benig executed. Windows Security has a terrible record of finding positives as malware writes pay them to not view their software as spyware.
NOD32 was terrible on my laptop and prevented from ever playing World of Warcraft. It is simply incompatible with a large selection of software.
The CIA makes up evidence all the time for the people it wants to arrest or kill. They do this because it makes their case less credible if the media gets any of it. Also having local police help look for a suspect is a help as well. Something like this lessens his support.
Not that I am pro messing with women's heads. I am just saying it is standard protocol in intelligence services with high public interest.
The timing is just funny. Also the UK mentioned they condemned his acts and want to put a stop to his work as well. They are not impartial at all. Before you think I am crazy for having the US try him, go google Jon Johansen (I think) and Decss? He was arrested for breaking an American law in Amsterdam! A treaty got the MPAA the powers to do this. The UK has treaties like this with the US (assumed).
Is this really about him breaking a condom? Or is it about the UK and US extracting their revenge by making up a charge to arrest him by? My guess is the former and watch as he might mysterisouly be transferred to the US to be tried for American crimes on disclosing secrets.
"What CIO is seriously going to shunt critical infrastructure into some cloud environment?"
They already do. You can save a ton of cash. Most data in large companies is now in India with some no name company anyway. Outsourcers own the servers, facility, and even the data. and not an Indian subsidiary of the original company. Need more proof? Look at www.salesforce.com? With SalesForce you can fire your whole IT except for a few techs to fix desktops. Everything is on the browser now and can be accessed through latops. No messy cds, installation, maintance, nor an expensive IT deparment. I find it troubling to be dependent on a single vendor on your data and not control it. However, the CPAs and accountants are now the CEO's and they do not care about this. Only short term cost cutting from cost centers like I.T.
It is the new norm. If CIO's and engineers become CEO then this will change but for now Wall Street likes the instant short term savings and cost cutting.
I think Microsoft though does not understand the needs of why to use a cloud. They just offer an API and not prebuilt applications that do not need to be managed anymore. It is the promise of just logging in and working not having to go through project managers and budget committees to get new features, develop software, and invest in infrastructure.
Windows 7 is a great improvement over Vista and is catching up to MacOSX.
For the same price you can get a PC as good and about as reliable. People just want cheap.
I cringed upgrading my computer. After looking into things and buying parts my wife convinced just to go all new and blow up to $1499. Ouch.
I was very close to getting a mac. My wife is a teacher and she brought her ibook from work home one weekend so I could play with it. The fact that I didn't have a second mouse button and no right button click with menus as well as the lack of a bottom task bar drove me nuts. I downloaded a demo of dreamweaver and it drove me crazy to have to keep selecting menu after menu with the mouse. The keyboard shortcuts are not that well support or way different. I admit this was because I got used to Windows and Gnome.
I went with a Windows 7 desktop with a nice monitor. It is as good as a mac and just about as reliable and it is a really fast and nice system. Macs have less problems but they miss.NET decent Java support and lack of Linux support. Linux does not support EFI and you could damage your mac running it. I have only had one weird glitch with my lan card in the past month playing with settings.
My cheap systems have always had problems. You get what you pay for regardless of OS.
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Not the managers I have met. Everything is always there fault.
When I worked fast food long ago there was an annoying coworker who thought he was bad ass for being promoted to a manager. Now he can move out of his parents house! Wahoo... for one day. Second day on the job the district manager pointed his finger about handle time, wasting food, etc. He quized him, followed him, and the new manager explained he was not trained and these new guys just started. It wasn't his fault.
Bla bla.. the district manger smiled and said "... it is now. You are the manager. Fix it!"
Within a week he was begging to be demoted back to minimum wage and not deal with this bs. The man had an anxiety attack on the job within his first week!
First day in MBA school they go over every bad theoretical situation at work and it is management's fault 100% of the time. Many of us who think they have it made and get paid to browse the news do not see the other side. I am not a manger, but I am aware when I become one my ass is theirs. It pays more for a very good reason.
Are you serious? If the network goes down and your employer loses $70,000 an hour in lost productivity for every hour down, it is not the lowly Cisco engineer's fault. ITS YOURS! If that happens more than once your career is through.
The Cisco engineer... well he has to hear crap from you of course but you have some very powerful enemies who can move mountains to help HR fire you.
Many WOW players have left due to annoying issues like this and patch Tuesday. With their latest release the update goes while you play to help eliminate this. Linux users do not care.
Which is why you and not HR should make the requirements. Mention to HR this is the level of experience for this payscale. Too often HR wants a SR level coder for a JR level position hoping it is the best of the best for that price. What they do not see is any.NET programmer with his salt with 8 years experience with.NET will abandon ship when the economy improves. Infact many are and then you have to rehire all over again.
I have seen employers ask about credit scores, speeding tickets, and even *must be employed* in order to filter out applicants.
What a sad day. So if you missed one payment back in 2008 or even got a ticket speeding back in 2009 that means you can not work in an office. I can see if one job was for an accountant and the other was a truck driver but this is insane!
What is sadder is not that HR is doing this but rather there are so many more people desperate than you that they have to filter out everyone. That brings me down in the job market more than an insane HR. I would probably be doing the same thing too if I received 150 applicants for every job that half are qualified to do.
Yes I am more broke now paying off my loans but you know what? If I didn't get a degree I would be selling printers at OfficeMax and flipping burgers at a 2nd job. Without the magical piece of paper you wont get through most HR filtering policies.
In 10 years when I am 43 I can finally start my life and know I can save and live the American dream after it is paid off. I see college degrees now for secretarial science. +5 years from now you will need an associates in secretarial science in order to answer phones and show you can add and subtract and do basic reading and math. Our public education system is so bad that most employers simply do not trust anyone without a degree to be reasonably intelligent unless you have years of experience. You can't get experience without the degree.
Keep in mind Apple was very very close to bankruptcy and insolvency back in 1997/1998. More than likely you would have sold in 1997 or earlier to get at least some of your money back before the *expected* bankruptcy would wipe out all your cash. The value of the share was a penny stock. It is up now but people can't see the future. Most rational people would have sold *myself included* as Windows95 was unstoppable and Microsoft was going to be the new standard back then. Apple was simply dead and most former macheads were busy switching to Windows NT and phasing out their macs back then.
1. If the person goes bankrupt he or she can not work again due to a bad credit score. This amounts to 7 years or more before it is erased. Also he or she would be forced to take jobs well under his or her ability like at a McDonalds due to Seagates bad faith. 2. This is punitive and compensatory. Otherwise Seagate will continue to do this and just make it the cost of business. This will scare it and other employers in the future of making such false promises.
Sounds 2 million is quite fair and cheap. Many punitive suites are 10x as much. As much as we hate lawyers and those who get rich by not working they do make their job as 2 million will make upper management blink and change their hiring policies.
The employer has all the bargaining power unless you are extremely talented and rare in your abilities. Just because there is no loyality does not give Seagate the green light to harm other people. Laws like this need to be enforced to scare employers to be reasonable. After all if you did millions in damages to your employer he can sue you right? Same principle.
If a job is temp or does not exist they can't make an offer. It is not fair to the person nor family.
They can require this because they can with today's labor market. SOmeone with 5 years knows more and is more productive than a fresh grad out of ITT or someone who can't hold onto a job for more than 6 months.
Employment at will does not mean you can make false promises to someone where they are hurt financially. It is not the laying off but the promising of something they knew was not real or would not happen before she started employment. You can't fire someone because he is black whether you are an at-will employer or not. It is the same thing and something needs to be done to protect workers for once.
She was a VP of human resources. She was offered a position that paid up to 180k a year. She sold her home and looked forward to the new position. It turns out they only planned to keep her for a 3 month project and laid her off. The job details made it appear that it was permanent and no mention of temp to hire appeared in job description.
She lost her home, savings, and moved back in with her parents. She is 55 and is too old to be rehired and lost everything. I hope she can quote this case as an example. Something has to give in this country. The rest of the 1st world does not have any of this nonsense and has much more support services. She is about ready to work at McDonalds and beg. Sometimes I hope these people and companies ROT.
Mmx came out with the pentium 133 mhz and this was a BIG DEAL.The previous posters did not have sse or mmx 1 or 2 with their CPUs. Intel saw mp3s back in 96 and put some of the long 2 bit media streams and added hardware acceleration. This would explain part of the low cpu utilization. Also you could of had hardware sound cards. Today they are software based so I do not know how a good sound card would help. I will read the article tomorrow. Windows Vista and Windows 7 are software only (as far as I know).
Many mp3s were encoded with only 2 channels and 16hz which were a lot less
"How about LINQ Bad idea no-sql is quite stylish. Keep SQL to where the database is. , a standard UI API which is good enough to use on real applications,
Like SWT (GTK based) which eclipse uses in its IDE. Swing number of graphical methods and layout managers is next to none unsigned types, The api's make it easy to convert as we use objects of preemptive types easier to use HTML/XML parsing, included with Java 5 and there are many HTML libraries including sun's hot java browser easier interfacing with C/C++, In Java 7 there is support where other languages can be compiles to bytecode for use in the Java VM. You can use RMI if you wish. less leaky and buggy API, etc?
Buggy? Have you used.NET before?
Once its in bytecode it is native. It can run just as fast as C++. Just because you are tired of waiting for the silly java compiler to compile it does not make it slow. It is like saying Firefox is slow and interpreted because it took 6 hours to compile from source on some developers machine therefore it is too slow to use once its compiled.
The software and tools are free with Java with eclipse and Netbeans. The express version of visual studio sucks very badly and the documentation is terrible since MSDN no longer is there accept going through Microsoft's confusing non intuitive website. I can create mobile apps and programs that can run all the way to the mainframe.
Also if I am starting a web business I do not have to worry about client access licenses. I am also not tied down to SQL Server which can cost $100,000+ for over 50 users.
Slashdot Mirror
The problem is many of your favorite *safe* websites use advertising networks. Some of the networks have virus infected ads without Google or the site owner knowing before it is too late. It has been on slashdot a year or two ago.
More than likely this is when you would haveNoScript off because you trust the site. The malware writers know this and are taking advantage of this too. Even that is not 100% secure.
I like AVG due to its link security. It also has excellent Firefox integration and prevented some nasty javascripts from benig executed. Windows Security has a terrible record of finding positives as malware writes pay them to not view their software as spyware.
NOD32 was terrible on my laptop and prevented from ever playing World of Warcraft. It is simply incompatible with a large selection of software.
The CIA makes up evidence all the time for the people it wants to arrest or kill. They do this because it makes their case less credible if the media gets any of it. Also having local police help look for a suspect is a help as well. Something like this lessens his support.
Not that I am pro messing with women's heads. I am just saying it is standard protocol in intelligence services with high public interest.
The timing is just funny. Also the UK mentioned they condemned his acts and want to put a stop to his work as well. They are not impartial at all. Before you think I am crazy for having the US try him, go google Jon Johansen (I think) and Decss? He was arrested for breaking an American law in Amsterdam! A treaty got the MPAA the powers to do this. The UK has treaties like this with the US (assumed).
Look at the leaked materials from 2008 about a secret American prison in Eastern Europe. People who have vanished ended up there.
Also the wikileaks show a German natural arrested because his name was the same as a terrorist.
The concern is serious. I mean the government assassinated Kennedy for crying out loud. They are a power to themselves.
Is this really about him breaking a condom? Or is it about the UK and US extracting their revenge by making up a charge to arrest him by? My guess is the former and watch as he might mysterisouly be transferred to the US to be tried for American crimes on disclosing secrets.
I smell a rat.
"What CIO is seriously going to shunt critical infrastructure into some cloud environment?"
They already do. You can save a ton of cash. Most data in large companies is now in India with some no name company anyway. Outsourcers own the servers, facility, and even the data. and not an Indian subsidiary of the original company. Need more proof? Look at www.salesforce.com? With SalesForce you can fire your whole IT except for a few techs to fix desktops. Everything is on the browser now and can be accessed through latops. No messy cds, installation, maintance, nor an expensive IT deparment. I find it troubling to be dependent on a single vendor on your data and not control it. However, the CPAs and accountants are now the CEO's and they do not care about this. Only short term cost cutting from cost centers like I.T.
It is the new norm. If CIO's and engineers become CEO then this will change but for now Wall Street likes the instant short term savings and cost cutting.
I think Microsoft though does not understand the needs of why to use a cloud. They just offer an API and not prebuilt applications that do not need to be managed anymore. It is the promise of just logging in and working not having to go through project managers and budget committees to get new features, develop software, and invest in infrastructure.
Windows 7 is a great improvement over Vista and is catching up to MacOSX.
For the same price you can get a PC as good and about as reliable. People just want cheap.
I cringed upgrading my computer. After looking into things and buying parts my wife convinced just to go all new and blow up to $1499. Ouch.
I was very close to getting a mac. My wife is a teacher and she brought her ibook from work home one weekend so I could play with it. The fact that I didn't have a second mouse button and no right button click with menus as well as the lack of a bottom task bar drove me nuts. I downloaded a demo of dreamweaver and it drove me crazy to have to keep selecting menu after menu with the mouse. The keyboard shortcuts are not that well support or way different. I admit this was because I got used to Windows and Gnome.
I went with a Windows 7 desktop with a nice monitor. It is as good as a mac and just about as reliable and it is a really fast and nice system. Macs have less problems but they miss .NET decent Java support and lack of Linux support. Linux does not support EFI and you could damage your mac running it. I have only had one weird glitch with my lan card in the past month playing with settings.
My cheap systems have always had problems. You get what you pay for regardless of OS.
Not the managers I have met. Everything is always there fault.
When I worked fast food long ago there was an annoying coworker who thought he was bad ass for being promoted to a manager. Now he can move out of his parents house! Wahoo ... for one day. Second day on the job the district manager pointed his finger about handle time, wasting food, etc. He quized him, followed him, and the new manager explained he was not trained and these new guys just started. It wasn't his fault.
Bla bla .. the district manger smiled and said "... it is now. You are the manager. Fix it!"
Within a week he was begging to be demoted back to minimum wage and not deal with this bs. The man had an anxiety attack on the job within his first week!
First day in MBA school they go over every bad theoretical situation at work and it is management's fault 100% of the time. Many of us who think they have it made and get paid to browse the news do not see the other side. I am not a manger, but I am aware when I become one my ass is theirs. It pays more for a very good reason.
Are you serious? If the network goes down and your employer loses $70,000 an hour in lost productivity for every hour down, it is not the lowly Cisco engineer's fault. ITS YOURS! If that happens more than once your career is through.
The Cisco engineer ... well he has to hear crap from you of course but you have some very powerful enemies who can move mountains to help HR fire you.
Many WOW players have left due to annoying issues like this and patch Tuesday. With their latest release the update goes while you play to help eliminate this. Linux users do not care.
Which is why you and not HR should make the requirements. Mention to HR this is the level of experience for this payscale. Too often HR wants a SR level coder for a JR level position hoping it is the best of the best for that price. What they do not see is any .NET programmer with his salt with 8 years experience with .NET will abandon ship when the economy improves. Infact many are and then you have to rehire all over again.
I have seen employers ask about credit scores, speeding tickets, and even *must be employed* in order to filter out applicants.
What a sad day. So if you missed one payment back in 2008 or even got a ticket speeding back in 2009 that means you can not work in an office. I can see if one job was for an accountant and the other was a truck driver but this is insane!
What is sadder is not that HR is doing this but rather there are so many more people desperate than you that they have to filter out everyone. That brings me down in the job market more than an insane HR. I would probably be doing the same thing too if I received 150 applicants for every job that half are qualified to do.
Yes I am more broke now paying off my loans but you know what? If I didn't get a degree I would be selling printers at OfficeMax and flipping burgers at a 2nd job. Without the magical piece of paper you wont get through most HR filtering policies.
In 10 years when I am 43 I can finally start my life and know I can save and live the American dream after it is paid off. I see college degrees now for secretarial science. +5 years from now you will need an associates in secretarial science in order to answer phones and show you can add and subtract and do basic reading and math. Our public education system is so bad that most employers simply do not trust anyone without a degree to be reasonably intelligent unless you have years of experience. You can't get experience without the degree.
I wish life was easier but what can you do?
Keep in mind Apple was very very close to bankruptcy and insolvency back in 1997/1998. More than likely you would have sold in 1997 or earlier to get at least some of your money back before the *expected* bankruptcy would wipe out all your cash. The value of the share was a penny stock. It is up now but people can't see the future. Most rational people would have sold *myself included* as Windows95 was unstoppable and Microsoft was going to be the new standard back then. Apple was simply dead and most former macheads were busy switching to Windows NT and phasing out their macs back then.
Try configuring php to work with postgresql and apache2?
Most people use Linux for web development. Under Windows I use Xampp and get over it with a few mouse clicks.
1. If the person goes bankrupt he or she can not work again due to a bad credit score. This amounts to 7 years or more before it is erased. Also he or she would be forced to take jobs well under his or her ability like at a McDonalds due to Seagates bad faith.
2. This is punitive and compensatory. Otherwise Seagate will continue to do this and just make it the cost of business. This will scare it and other employers in the future of making such false promises.
Sounds 2 million is quite fair and cheap. Many punitive suites are 10x as much. As much as we hate lawyers and those who get rich by not working they do make their job as 2 million will make upper management blink and change their hiring policies.
The employer has all the bargaining power unless you are extremely talented and rare in your abilities. Just because there is no loyality does not give Seagate the green light to harm other people. Laws like this need to be enforced to scare employers to be reasonable. After all if you did millions in damages to your employer he can sue you right? Same principle.
If a job is temp or does not exist they can't make an offer. It is not fair to the person nor family.
They can require this because they can with today's labor market. SOmeone with 5 years knows more and is more productive than a fresh grad out of ITT or someone who can't hold onto a job for more than 6 months.
Employment at will does not mean you can make false promises to someone where they are hurt financially. It is not the laying off but the promising of something they knew was not real or would not happen before she started employment. You can't fire someone because he is black whether you are an at-will employer or not. It is the same thing and something needs to be done to protect workers for once.
She was a VP of human resources. She was offered a position that paid up to 180k a year. She sold her home and looked forward to the new position. It turns out they only planned to keep her for a 3 month project and laid her off. The job details made it appear that it was permanent and no mention of temp to hire appeared in job description.
She lost her home, savings, and moved back in with her parents. She is 55 and is too old to be rehired and lost everything. I hope she can quote this case as an example. Something has to give in this country. The rest of the 1st world does not have any of this nonsense and has much more support services. She is about ready to work at McDonalds and beg. Sometimes I hope these people and companies ROT.
Mmx came out with the pentium 133 mhz and this was a BIG DEAL.The previous posters did not have sse or mmx 1 or 2 with their CPUs. Intel saw mp3s back in 96 and put some of the long 2 bit media streams and added hardware acceleration. This would explain part of the low cpu utilization. Also you could of had hardware sound cards. Today they are software based so I do not know how a good sound card would help. I will read the article tomorrow. Windows Vista and Windows 7 are software only (as far as I know).
Many mp3s were encoded with only 2 channels and 16hz which were a lot less
UGH try running early Linux or FreeBSD to recognize that controller on that proprietary sound card.
"How about LINQ Bad idea no-sql is quite stylish. Keep SQL to where the database is.
, a standard UI API which is good enough to use on real applications,
Like SWT (GTK based) which eclipse uses in its IDE. Swing number of graphical methods and layout managers is next to none .NET before?
unsigned types, The api's make it easy to convert as we use objects of preemptive types
easier to use HTML/XML parsing, included with Java 5 and there are many HTML libraries including sun's hot java browser
easier interfacing with C/C++, In Java 7 there is support where other languages can be compiles to bytecode for use in the Java VM. You can use RMI if you wish.
less leaky and buggy API, etc?
Buggy? Have you used
Java is rock solid.
Once its in bytecode it is native. It can run just as fast as C++. Just because you are tired of waiting for the silly java compiler to compile it does not make it slow. It is like saying Firefox is slow and interpreted because it took 6 hours to compile from source on some developers machine therefore it is too slow to use once its compiled.
The software and tools are free with Java with eclipse and Netbeans. The express version of visual studio sucks very badly and the documentation is terrible since MSDN no longer is there accept going through Microsoft's confusing non intuitive website. I can create mobile apps and programs that can run all the way to the mainframe.
Also if I am starting a web business I do not have to worry about client access licenses. I am also not tied down to SQL Server which can cost $100,000+ for over 50 users.